It matters Not That I Have Wheels And Roll In This Life, For In The Next Life I Shall Have Wings And Fly!

Sorry if you opt out of our perfectly good meals? or big deal if you have special needs we’ll take money but not care says paradox sports

When I lived back in my native Australia I worked with a mental health therapy group called grow mental health international, our mission was when someone who had been in long term institutional care was being released we worked with them from a couple of weeks before release to help them reacclimatize with society. WE would regularly take groups of former patients on weekend getaways. The form we used for each patient looked like this.

Name—-

Age——

Diagnosis—-

Medications required—-

Emergency contact number—

Special dietary requirements—

Allergies—-

Do you use a mobility aid if so what kind?

The questions above were required because if the person requires medication we need to know in case they start showing symptoms, we could make sure they had taken it. The dietary requirements were neccessary to know about, because so many of us me included can actually be medical compromised if they eat the wrong thing and if there are diabetics amongst we must provide sugar free. Allergies are important to now about because so many foods have hidden ingredients, and while for most they are just flavor to many they are deadly.

Of course knowing about mobility aids means you can in advance organize appropriate accommodation, and organize help if the pathways and tracks used might make movement difficult for those using certain aids.

All this must be known before you ever get to the fun stuff which is the point of the trip such as boating or climbing or biking or any other activity.

To tell someone who is part of a group that is made up 100% of people who are dis or otherwise abled that “it’s not their faulty if you opt out of perfectly good food “ and that they shouldn’t be required to provide anything different for special needs guests is you sir opting out of your duty of care.

If a destination doesn’t want to provide special needs arrangements for special needs guests, then I am sorry they should be banned from encouraging them to visit. There is a medical term called “duty of care” in medical legalese there is a law that says if a doctor or medical professional comes upon a accident they don’t have to stop they can go straight past, but if they do they must provide care to the best of their professional ability until they are relieved by another medical professional with equal or greater or specialized skills pertinent to the condition of the patient. In short you don’t have to have special needs guests you can say sorry this destination is unsuitable for the physically compromised, but if you do you must do it to the highest professional standard. If you charge a fee for “all meals and accommodation” by law under the Americans with disabilities act if you are knowingly taking a fee to house and feed the disabled you must be ADA compliant and provide said services to the letter of the federal act or not at all. So as we new Yorkers say go big or go home you cannot charge for what you do not provide hmmm such a paradox isn’t it.

Below is a paragraph from the Americans with disabilities act pertaining to public accomadations.

Restaurants, hotels, theaters, shopping centers and malls, retail stores, museums, libraries, parks, private schools, day care centers, and other similar places of public accommodation may not discriminate on the basis of disability. 28 CFR 36.201. Effective Date: January 26, 1992,

when you charge a set fee for food and accommadation and provide it for one half of the group but when the other half is disabled and their food requirements are part of that disability and you refuse to feed them because of the food requirements, you are in direct violation of the federal act above you have refused equal accomadation on the basis of their disabilities.

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Author: disabledaccessdenied

I am a disabled woman who through no fault of my own has wheels under my ass. I rely on the decency and common sense of local, state and federal goverments, as well as the retail community to abide by the disabled access laws and provide adequate ramps, disabled toilets, and not use them as store rooms or broom closets. This blog exists to find the offenders and out them, inform them, and report them if necessary and shame them into doing the right thing when all else fails.
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